We’re happy to announce that hypios has its first problem in sustainable development. One of our Seekers is looking for a biodegradable battery with the same power as a traditional battery. The need for this innovation emerged in a very specific environment (reflected in the problem’s specifications), so a potential solution will only have to work in this environment. But prospective use of this kind of device is not limited to the domain where the problem emerged.
We really hope that this problem will find a solution on hypios, and that there are more of its kind to come! It might seem like a tiny problem, but it reflects one of the biggest environmental issues of the contemporary world: the production of energy (and especially the immense source of energy represented by nuclear power plants) produces non-degradable and non-recycable waste. Perfecting the biodegradable battery is a small but crucial step towards a sustainable world.
(Photo: Captain Planet)
Tags: biodegradable batteries, green technology, lithium-ion batteries
November 24, 2009 at 5:02 am |
America lost a war to Canada in the first Bush administration over this, and few people know it. In the early 1990’s a couple of brothers named Roberson in Idaho came up with a hyper-ion battery catalyst that made conventional batteries work longer and recharge faster. I read their load tests by Hyster forklifts, golfcart companies and was impressed. About that time, Canada was getting economically concerned that acid rain from the American northeast’s pollution blew north, while they noticed rivers ran south. So the Canadian government contacted the borthers about one of their ideas for a hyper-ion wall that would knock American pollution down at the border and it would flow back into polluters faces. Bush 41 asked them not to and the Canadians demanded at least $60-million be spent on scrubbers in smokestacks in PA NY etc. The money was scrounged and the ion wall was never built. The brothers can be found or tracked in Utah, Idaho, or AZ. They may have some ideas for you plus 20 years of thought on the subject since then.